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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6097 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 9 of 10 09 January 2011 at 12:42am | IP Logged |
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I like variety so my next language will almost certainly be non-slavic
even though Polish would give me a solid base to tackle Russian. I started learning Polish seriously 4 months ago; when I've done about 2 years I'll think about starting another language while continuing to improve Polish. Maybe after another 2 years I might commit to a third (and probaly final) language. I like the idea of selecting languages from different families, or sub-groups within the same family (e.g Indo-European: one Slavic, one Romance, one Germanic or one isolate like Armenian or Greek). I will be living with my chosen languages for the rest of my life; I'd prefer each of them to be a contrast one to another, distinctive and offering differnt facets to thinking and communicating. That way I get to see out of lots of windows onto different views rather than 3 windows more-or-less pointing in the same direction. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5058 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 10 13 January 2011 at 10:38pm | IP Logged |
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I love your outlook on it. The target languages should provide some sort of contrast,
now this doesn't have to be the contrast of language family but it could and should be, specially if as the thread starter said, one is learning Norwegian/Danish/Swedish. This isn't even possible, as I'd call them mere dialects of the same base language. You would end up speaking Scandaneavish, which no one would understand. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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